“Your behaviour amounted to a callous breach of the trust your friend had in you.”

During the trial, Newland claimed her accuser, also aged 25, always knew she was pretending to be a man as they engaged in role play while struggling with their sexuality.

She said no blindfold was used and she did not strap bandages to her chest or wear a woollen hat and swimsuit.

But in September, a jury at Chester Crown Court convicted the marketing manager from Willaston, Cheshire, of three counts of sexual assault at the complainant’s flat in Chester.

Newland created a bogus Facebook profile in the name of Kye Fortune and was then said to have taken on the persona of Kye as she mimicked a man to speak many times on the phone with the victim after their first contact in 2011.

When they finally decided to meet up in February 2013, the complainant told the jury that Kye had asked her to wear a blindfold because he was insecure about his looks following supposed life-saving brain surgery.

They were said to have spent more than 100 hours together and the encounters would include the complainant wearing a blindfold when they watched television together and on one occasion even when sunbathing.

The prosecution said it was an “unusual case” set against an “extraordinary background” in which the defendant targeted the “naive and vulnerable” complainant – who said she was not gay – in an elaborate deception.

But Newland’s legal team argued the complainant’s account was simply “impossible to believe” and that a woman of her sexual experience could not have been tricked into thinking she had had sex with a man.

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